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A bug in Ring's Neighbor app exposed the locations and home addresses of users who shared posts on the platform. The number of users affected is unknown, but reports show four million posts were shared to the app last year. The video-doorbell maker launched Neighbor as a hyperlocal community-watch app in 2018, allowing members to report crime and unusual activity in a five mile radius of their home. Names and exact locations aren't shared when posts go up, but detailed specifics — including home addresses and even latitude and longitude — are recorded on Ring's servers. The flaw was publ...

9:30 AM MYT An Uber driver wears a protective mask as he drives a car in the Queens neighborhood in New York, US. The lawsuits come as an informal global movement of gig workers has expanded in the coronavirus pandemic, with drivers and delivery workers from the United States to India staging strikes to demand better pay and working conditions. — Reuters TBILISI/BERLIN: London-based Uber driver Abdurzak Hadi is self-employed but says he is not his own boss as his workflow is determined by an obscure computer algorithm. With the ride-hailing app deciding which – and how many – clients he...

INSIGHT-The gig workers taking legal action to regain control of their data Reuters 12/16/2020 By Umberto Bacchi and Avi Asher-Schapiro TBILISI/BERLIN, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - L ondon-based Uber driver Abdurzak Hadi is self-employed but says he is not his own boss as his workflow is determined by an obscure computer algorithm. With the ride-hailing app deciding which - and how many - clients he gets each day, Hadi says he cannot optimise work and make more money, prompting him to join legal action against Uber that could set a precedent for all workers in the gig economy. "I'm...